"These much-needed reforms, while difficult to push through due to political considerations, would have the power to launch a new era of good governance and better accountability, simultaneously increasing global confidence in the 'India story'," writes entrepreneur Jay P Desai in "Accountability: Angst, Awareness, Action".
"A jump in FDI and foreign institutional investment is more than likely, besides turbo-charging domestic investment."
The author constructs a three-dimensional lens and examines the mechanisms that hold governance institutions accountable. Six initiatives that can improve accountability in India are identified and evaluated.
"India is poised at a crucial juncture in its post-independence history. Accountability, the heartbeat of governance, is under siege. The epidemic of unaccountability lurks beneath India